The Emergency Medicine and Acute Care Update

The Emergency Medicine and Acute Care Update is organized by American Educational Institute (AEI) and will be held from Sep 29, 2025 - Sep 25, 2026 at Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America.

Course Objectives:
After completing The 2025-26 Emergency Medicine and Acute Care Update you should have acquired the knowledge that will better enable you to:

• Recognize and manage common and high-risk pediatric rashes with an emphasis on accurate diagnosis, clinical context, and appropriate treatment strategies.
• Recognize and evaluate red flags in patients with acute non-traumatic back or neck pain that may indicate spinal cord or cauda equina compression.
• Identify critical abdominal CT findings to improve rapid decision-making in emergency situations.
• Better understand strategies for the assessment and management of pediatric trauma, with emphasis on imaging, airway management, and injury-specific considerations.
• Improve diagnostic accuracy by identifying atypical stroke presentations and distinguishing them from stroke mimics.
• Improve diagnostic accuracy for non-ACS life-threatening causes of chest pain using clinical strategies and imaging.
• Identify risk factors, clinical features, and evidence-based management strategies for alcohol withdrawal in the ED setting.
• Better understand how to apply current evidence-based strategies to evaluate and manage febrile infants and children in the emergency setting.
• Identify uncommon but critical causes of acute generalized weakness and outline appropriate diagnostic and management strategies.
• Recognize high-risk musculoskeletal injuries that are commonly missed in the emergency department and understand how to avoid associated diagnostic pitfalls.
• Better recognize and manage critical pediatric cardiac presentations, including congenital heart disease, myocarditis, chest pain, syncope, and arrhythmias.
• Understand how to use a symptom-based, bedside assessment approach to differentiate benign from dangerous causes of acute dizziness.
• Identify the clinical features of BPPV and apply bedside diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers to effectively manage it in the emergency setting.
• Improve understanding of best practices in pediatric resuscitation to manage critical illness and trauma across age groups.
• Identify common contributors to diagnostic error and apply strategies to reduce preventable mistakes in clinical decision-making.
• Improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes by selecting appropriate imaging and communicating effectively with radiology in the emergency setting.